[Download] "Martin v. Board of County Commissioners for Prince George's County" by September Term, 1965 Court of Appeals of Maryland No. 551 * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Martin v. Board of County Commissioners for Prince George's County
- Author : September Term, 1965 Court of Appeals of Maryland No. 551
- Release Date : January 04, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 69 KB
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Appellants sought zoning reclassification of some six acres of land in Prince George's County from rural residential to low density apartment use. The County Commissioners, sitting as a District Council, refused to approve the change. Appellants concede ""that the evidence before the District Council was fairly debatable"" and would have supported the action taken. They contend, however, that the Council did not act on the basis of the facts of record before them and claim, in the language of Hedin v. Board of Co. Commissioners, 209 Md. 224, 236, which condemned such a practice, that ""the [Council's] action in basing its decision apparently almost entirely upon the personal opinion of one of its members, without support for that opinion in the evidence, amounted to arbitrary action on the part of the [Council] from which some form of relief may be had * * *.""